‘Ultimate Authority Resides in the People’

JAMES R. VOUTOUR

President James Madison, the Father of the United States Constitution, said, “The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone.” Vincent Leibell apparently doesn’t believe that. He apparently wants to consider appointing his own police commissioner and do away with the elected office of Sheriff here in Putnam County.

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